Saturday, October 3, 2015

And do not get drunk with Wine. 10/3/15

Day 274- Reading the New Testament in one year.

Ephesians 5:17-33

17 Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. 18 And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit, 19 addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart, 20 giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, 21 submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.

Wives and Husbands

22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.

25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, 26 that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27 so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.[a] 28 In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, 30 because we are members of his body. 31 “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” 32 This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. 33 However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Supplied Life Devotional by Bill Freeman

Push Him out October 3rd

“Always bearing about in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body. For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.”

2 CORINTHIANS 4:10-11

To inwardly apply the cross, we need to coordinate our spirit with our environment. In these verses we have both the inward cross and the outward cross. “Always bearing about in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus” speaks of the inward cross. Then this inward cross is coordinated with the outward cross by the word “for”: “For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.” The inward cross and the outward cross operating together is the “death working in us” that produces “life in you” (v. 12).

In verse 11 we are handed over, or delivered, unto death. We may be handed over into weakness, into a trial, into insults, into misunderstanding — into being crossed out. We are handed over again and again to all kinds of outward environments. Just as the Lord Jesus was handed over to the smiters, to those who rejected Him, to all the environment that was sovereignly laid out for Him, we also are always being handed over. So do not be surprised. This is our lot because we have a destiny and a goal — to follow the pathway of the cross, to enjoy resurrection life, and to be conformed to His image.

We are always being handed over to death “for Jesus’ sake.” In Greek, the preposition used here can be literally translated because of. Thus, it would read, “For we who live are always delivered unto death because of Jesus.” He is the cause of all this! He is in our spirit, andGod’sdesireistopushHimoutintooursoul—tomanifestHim, to display Him, to make Him known. Jesus is not happy being confined to our spirit. He wants to spread out into our whole being. And because many times we do not take the initiative to pursue Him, we get handed over to a death situation — to a trying environment or to a disappointment. We are just handed over. This is because God is so desirous that Jesus be manifested in our mortal flesh.

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